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The Influence of Mineral and Organic Admixtures On The Rheology of Cement Paste and Concrete

The document discusses the influence of mineral and organic admixtures on the rheology of cement paste and concrete. It examines the effects of different mixers, mineral admixtures like ultrafine fly ash, and organic admixtures like high-range water reducers and viscosity modifying admixtures. The key findings are that ultrafine fly ash provided the best rheological improvement at an optimum dosage of 12% cement replacement, a blender mixer produced more consistent results than a Hobart mixer, and cement paste rheology was more sensitive to changes in high-range water reducers than viscosity modifying admixtures.

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The Influence of Mineral and Organic Admixtures On The Rheology of Cement Paste and Concrete

The document discusses the influence of mineral and organic admixtures on the rheology of cement paste and concrete. It examines the effects of different mixers, mineral admixtures like ultrafine fly ash, and organic admixtures like high-range water reducers and viscosity modifying admixtures. The key findings are that ultrafine fly ash provided the best rheological improvement at an optimum dosage of 12% cement replacement, a blender mixer produced more consistent results than a Hobart mixer, and cement paste rheology was more sensitive to changes in high-range water reducers than viscosity modifying admixtures.

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The influence of mineral and organic admixtures on the

rheology of cement paste and concrete

By

Pouya Behrouzi nia


89211427

Dr.friouzabadi
contents

 Introduction

 Background

 Material, mixing and testing details

 Results and discussion

 conclusions
 concrete

 Composition
 cement
portland cement: Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824
• consists of a mixture of oxides of calcium, silicon
and aluminium
• Portland cement and similar materials are made by heating limestone with clay and
grindind with sulfate
 Composition

• Water

• Combining water with a cementitious material forms a cement paste by the process
of hydration

• Cement chemist notation: C3S + H → C-S-H + CH


• Standard notation: Ca3SiO5 + H2O → (CaO)·(SiO2)·(H2O)(gel) + Ca(OH)2
• Balanced: 2Ca3SiO5 + 7H2O → 3(CaO)·2(SiO2)·4(H2O)(gel) + 3Ca(OH)2

• Aggregates
• Fine and coarse aggregates make up the bulk of a concrete mixture
• Sand, natural gravel and crushed stone
 Properties

 high compressive strength


 low tensile strength
• reinforced with materials that are strong in tension (often steel)

 very low coefficient of thermal expansion


 elasticity of concrete
 workability
 Concrete flow using rheological parameters

slump of at least 100 mm Bingham fluid  

Bingham equation

τ : the shear stress

: the shear strain rate


 Materials

 Cement
ASTM Type I portland cement
 The high-range water reducer (HRWR)

• Naphthalene sulfonate-based product with a mass fraction of 43%active ingredients

 Mineral admixture
 Cement paste

• water/cement ratio: 0.28-0.35;


• dosages of mineral admixtures: 0-16% of cement,replacing cement
by mass
• dosage of HRWR (based on naphthalene sulfonated condensate):
0.45-0.70% solid by mass of cementitious materials.
 Cement paste preparation

• Two types of mixers were considered:


Hobart mixer high-speed blender
 Parallel plate rheometer

• The gap (distance between the plates) was arbitrarily fixed at 0.4 mm

• The surfaces of the two plates were serrated


• slowly increasing shear rate fr om 0 to 70 in 160 second

• increasing shear rate by 10 steps from 3 to 50


 Minislump cone test details
 Marsh cone test details
• Closing the small orifice with a finger, 1 L of cement paste was poured into the cone.
• The orifice was opened and a stop watch started.
• The time for a certain amount of cement paste to flow was recorded.
• The volumes selected were 300, 500, and 700 mL.
 Effect of mixer on rheological properties of cement
paste
• The two mixer available to us:

Hobart mixer blender mixer


 Effect of mixer on rheological properties of cement
paste
 Comparisons between rheological and empirical
tests
mini slump test marsh cone test

correlation: Higher yield stress corresponds to a lower spread in the minislump


 Effect of mineral admixture type on cement paste
rheological properties
 Effect of dosage of UFFA on cement paste
rheological properties

• The tests were done at a W/C ratio of 0.35 and a fixed HRWR dosage of 0.45% solid by
mass of cement
• The plot suggests that a dosage of 12% by mass is optimal
 Concrete testing
• The concrete rheological behavior was tested using the standard slump cone
test
 organic admixtures
 Self-Compacting Concretes (SCCs)
 Two organic admixture consider:

HRWR VMA
Influence of HRWRA content Influence of VMA content
 Comparison between the influence of HRWRA and VMA
on the rheological behaviour
 conclusion

 it was determined that mixtures with UFFA represented the best


rheological improvement while SF represented the worst

 optimum dosage of UFFA is 12% for replacement of cement by


mass

 cement paste should be mixed using a blender and not an Hobart


mixer

 minislump test results correlate in certain cases

 rheological properties of the pastes are much more sensitive to


HRWRAs than VMAs
Thanks for your attention

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